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Registration: XS898

Construction Number: 95244

Code Number: BD

Model English Electric Lightning F6

Operator: Private

Airport: Cranfield (EGTC), UK - England

Photographer: Malcolm Clarke

Date Taken: 10/1988

Date Submitted: 19/03/2007

One of the last Lightnings in RAF service, 898 was among 6 purchased from Binbrooke by Arnold Glass on 30 June 1988. Initially maintained by RAF ground crew, CAA certificaion for civil flying was not forthcoming and it was scrapped in 1994, the nose section surviving in private ownership.

Picture ID:1046794

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